According to Facebook, my 2012 was pretty fab. I turned 22, SHAY SHAY-ed all over China, got elected to the Tau Beta Sigma Southeast District Council with my favorite sisters, attended formal with a spectacular man, bonded with more ITB than this status has room for, got new business cards, celebrated the long life of my sister now in the great sorority above, and, finally, attended several Auburn
football games, as a student, and with my best friends. Now I know that’s a lot to take in, but I certainly have enjoyed every minute of it, and as we approach the holidays and the turn of a new year, I am expecting many more moments like these, for many years to come. Through the misfortune and sometimes sad occurrences of life, we find out the person we truly are… And I am honestly and completely proud of the woman I have become. MLITB and War Eagle Forever!
From my personal blog. 🙂 MLITB!
two of her classmates (Emily SoRelle and Ruth La Nell Williams), took the idea to director D.O. Wiley of the Texas Technological College Band. The idea, patterned after Kappa Kappa Psi, began to come together the following semester and resulted in the campus organization Tau Beta Sigma. Much like the Fraternity, Tau Beta Sigma’s purpose at Tech was to serve as an honorary service and leadership recognition society, but was designed especially to provide the important additional social, educational, and other positive experiences needed by women in the band. The fledgling organization petitioned for recognition as an official campus organization from Dean of Women Mary Doak in spring 1940.
continued to develop the fledgling organization. By October 1941, TBS had begun communications with the National Executive Secretary of Kappa Kappa Psi for assistance in becoming a national organization.
and pledge pin. When applying for a national charter, D.O. Wiley and the girls at Texas Tech again turned to A. Frank Martin and offered to turn over their work and the name Tau Beta Sigma to the women’s band sorority at Oklahoma A&M, known as Kappa Psi, to submit the articles of incorporation in Oklahoma. Through this act, the chapter at Oklahoma A&M would become the Alpha Chapter. As part of this agreement, the chapter at Texas Tech, Beta, would be known as the founding location of the Sorority and the members stipulated that Wava Banes would be known as the Founder, the agreement also specified that the 1st National President would be from the Beta Chapter.
Alpha Chapter traveled to Lubbock, Texas, to officially install the women of Texas Tech as the Beta Chapter of the National Sorority.
Robyn Wilkes is in her third year as the Director of Instrumental Studies at the State College of Florida inBradenton where she conducts the wind ensemble, orchestra, and teaches classes in music appreciation, music history, and music theory. In addition to her responsibilities at the college, Ms. Wilkes is also the conductor of the Sarasota Pops Orchestra, former conductor of the Sarasota Orchestra Youth Symphony, conductor of the Advanced Band for the Sarasota Orchestra Music Camp, and performs at area churches on trumpet and percussion. She received her B.S. Degree in Music Education, Magna Cum Laude, from theUniversity ofTennessee,Chattanooga in 1997 and attended theUniversity ofTennessee,Knoxville as a graduate assistant for the “Pride of the Southland” Marching Band, earning a Masters Degree in Instrumental Conducting in 1999. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Music Education atBostonUniversity with a research emphasis on popular music in secondary education.